SIRPα/CD172a and FHOD1 are unique markers of littoral cells, a recently evolved major cell population of red pulp of human spleen

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 188, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4496-4505

  Ogembo, Javier Gordon ^a,b   Milner, Danny A ^b,c   Mansfield, Keith G ^b   Rodig, Scott J ^b,c   Murphy, George F ^b,c   Kutok, Jeffery L ^c   Pinkus, Geraldine S ^b,c   Fingeroth, Joyce D ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD163 ANTIGEN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD GROUP DUFFY SYSTEM; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORTALITY; PHAGOCYTE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINUS VENOSUS; SPLEEN;

EID: 84860341352     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1103086     Document Type: Article

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